Week 2 social media, technology and societal change

What is Social Media• talking, participating, sharing, networking, and bookmarking

online. • discussion, feedback, voting, comments, and sharing of

information from all interested parties.• linked to other sites, resources, and people.

Social Media …Social NetworkingSocial Media …Social NetworkingSocial media is a term for the tools and platforms people use to publish, converse and share content online. The tools include blogs, wikis, podcasts, and sites to share photos and bookmarks.

Social networking sites are online places where users can create a profile for themselves, and then socialize with others using a range of social media tools including blogs, video, images, tagging, lists of friends, forums and messaging.

Social Media: Society & Citizenship

~The Conversation ~ blogging, commenting or contributing - the currency of social networking.

Social Media:Another Paradigm Shift?

The Iceman thought his world would never change – until the refrigerator replaced him.

charlesdyer's photostream

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”

Niels Bohr

Over the ages, Many People have Feared New Technology

““The free access which many young people The free access which many young people have…has poisoned the mind and corrupted have…has poisoned the mind and corrupted

the morals of many a promising youth.”the morals of many a promising youth.”Reverend Enos Hitchcock, Memoirs of the Bloomsgrove Family, 1790

““This new form of entertainment has gone This new form of entertainment has gone far to blast maidenhood………far to blast maidenhood………Depraved adults with candies and pennies Depraved adults with candies and pennies beguile children with the inevitable result”beguile children with the inevitable result”

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1909

““Does it break up the home Does it break up the home life and the old practice of life and the old practice of

visiting friends?”visiting friends?”The Knights of Columbus…1933

Speaking of phone conversations.

““Why the Internet Will Fail”Why the Internet Will Fail”

"No online database will replace your daily

newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a

competent teacher and no computer network will

change the way government works.“

Clifford Stoll, Newsweek, Feb 27, 1995

But the old way has problems….But the old way has problems….

1. Too many websites to visit http://www.stumbleupon.com/ 2. Difficult to organize emails and attachments3. Only companies and organizations have a “voice.”

Now WEB 2.0 offers the ability to talk Now WEB 2.0 offers the ability to talk outside the usual channelsoutside the usual channels

1. Personal Publishing (blogs)2. Easy to create and edit websites (wikis)3. Publish and share photos, video (Flickr, YouTube)4. Lots of ways to share and collaborate

“Today's phones are almost like people," in that they have senses such as eyes (a camera), ears (a microphone) and skin

(a touch screen). Google VP – Marrisa Mayer

• She heralds the "a sensor revolution," including data

Vibration…..Tilt…..Rotation….. Navigation…Sound....Airflow.…

Light…Temperature....Biological….Chemica

l….Humidity..Pressure….Location

The Curated Experience,Convergent Devices & Net Neutrality

• http://counternotions.com/2010/05/17/curation/

How convergent devices overthrew civilization!How convergent devices overthrew civilization!

“Perhaps the most pernicious proposition of the “everything must be open” crusade is the notion that curation is bad and anti-freedom. Soldiers of this crusade confuse freedom with competition. Our museums are not football-field sized warehouses where art objects are indiscriminately dumped and our magazines and blogs are not amorphous containers of randomly selected articles. Our classrooms, restaurants, hospitals and indeed all our civilized institutions are firmly reliant on curation of one kind or another. The goal should be for curators to compete, not for curation to be declared illegal and unholy by the “open” zealots.” ~ Kontra

Who’s behind the curtain? Who’s behind the curtain?

“Just as Adobe is desperately trying to yell at the world, “Don’t buy into Apple’s walled garden, get locked into our own proprietary Flash,” so is Google trying to misdirect consumers’ attention from its own monopolistic sins to Apple’s mobile platform where 100 million users voted with their own money to enjoy 200,000 apps. The evil man behind the curtain in this scenario is not Apple’s curation, it’s the frightening prospect of Google getting cut off from search and ad revenue derived from its naked domination of the search box on top of your web browser. That, unfortunately, doesn’t sound like an appealing public cry, hence the “Curated Computing” misdirection whining.”

Why it matters!Why it matters!

Most of today’s educational content comes in textbooks, which Bryan Polivka likens to CDs in “Why the iPad really could change everything.” http://www.newsweek.com/2010/03/25/think-really-different.html

He asks us to wonder about the textbook “single” and imagines a future in which we can create a learning “playlist” for a course that mixes tracks from Macmillan, Pearson and others. The future suggests that it won’t stop there and digital “papers” and assignments will be elaborations (riffs?) on those textbook singles and the best ones will be added to the library from which future students construct their playlists.

One Technologic View of the Future:Transhumanism

Are social networking sites for society?Are social networking sites for society?

http://socialnetworking.procon.org/#Background

Short case study….my son.

Band Aid For Haiti

BAND AID

BAND AID Published: Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:03 PM EDTRyan Brannon, a senior at Saltsburg Senior High School, received a plaque from Red Cross volunteer Rache Station honoring him for his fundraising efforts for the Red Cross.

Brannon raised $1,125 for the Relief Fund for Haiti through a recent band benefit that featured 10 local bands and attracted more than 250 guests.

Tom Peel/Gazette photo

Social Media (Facebook) in the Social Media (Facebook) in the ClassroomClassroom

“We are moving from an

information age to an

OPINION AGEOPINION AGE.” Warren Sack, Associate Professor, Film & Digital Media School,

University of California, Santa Cruz

“The social landscape is emotionalTransparency and authenticity are not emotions.” Brian Solis - digital analyst, sociologist and

futurist

“Youth exhibit agency and an expertise that often exceeds that of their elders, resulting in intergenerational struggle over authority and

control over learning and literacy.”

“ Peer-based learning relies on a context of reciprocity, in which kids feel they have a stake in self-expression as well as a stake

in evaluating and giving feedback to one another.”

Are the Social Networking Wars Over?…..

http://cultureslurp.com/2010/10/20/5-reasons-why-facebook-won-the-battle-of-the-social-networks